British Wit & Sarcasm

** A bargain is something you don't need at a price you can't resist.

** A good man in an evil society seems the greatest villain of all.

** A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

** A half truth is a whole lie.

** Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.

** All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy; all play and no work makes Jack a mere toy.

** Curiosity killed the cat (and satisfaction brought it back).

** Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

** Education is a progressive discovering of our own ignorance.

** Education makes machines which act like men and produces men who act like machines

** Falling down does not signify failure but staying there does.

** He who is good at excuses is seldom good at anything else.

** Helping Hands are better than Praying Lips

** If you're not part of the solution, you're likely part of the problem.

** Insanity is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results.

** Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

** Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.

** Life is what passes you by when you are too busy making other plans.

** Love is not finding someone to live with; it's finding someone whom you can't live without.

** Love is blind,… but marriage is the real eye-opener.

** Proverbs are long life experiences, told in one short sentence.

** Someone who gossips to you will gossip about you.

** The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

** Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.

** Write injuries in the sand, kindnesses in marble.

** You don't have to be different to be good. You have to be good to be different.

** You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.

** Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
** Anyone who thinks the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, is aiming ten inches too high.
** A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it starts to rain.

** A paragraph should be like a lady's skirt: long enough to cover the essentials but short enough to keep it interesting.

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What Price Is Sin?

It would seem that certain sins are worth committing,economically speaking. King Henry IV once pronounced that "Paris is well worth a Mass"; the crown of France in exchange for converting to Catholicism, to end the bloody war of religion. It would seem that Hely Sgarbi, the Swiss gigolo who cheated a huge fortune out of his lover Susanne Klatten, the richest woman in Germany, daughter of Herbert Quandt, founder of BMW, has opted for a similar way to keep his fair sized loot. The trial of his case closed with a sentence, unexpected and discreet, of 6 years in jail, without Sgarbi having to reveal the whereabouts of the 9 and a half million € he had swindled. A quick mental calculation told me that this equals more than €1 and a half million per year for being in jail. A hell of a lot more than most people working all their lives in a steady 8-9 hour day full time job or labour. Apart from the fact that during that period all his board, lodging, and all bills paid for and plus all medical attention and entertainment. Is this the Mass of Sgarbi? The key factor for the prompt sentence, to which attended 200 reporters, seemed centred on the pact or deal between the lawyers, to settle the matter in such a way that Susanne Klatten would not have to declare publicly in court, and the cheating lover Sgarbi, needed only to ask pardon, through his lawyer that: "I regret profoundly what had happened, and wish to ask publicly forgiveness of the ladies who had been hurt by my action." He had also admitted having blackmailed the ladies with photos of their intimacy in various hotels of Munich and Monte Carlo. This declaration avoided the appearance of the victims. Klatten works in BMW as executive and co-proprietor. She was married with 3 children, but had let herself seduced by the professional gigolo in 2007. The lie he used to swindle her money was more or less the same as used with some other ladies, that he had killed a child with his car in the United States, and the Mafia there had asked for €7 million, or else. Klatten generously advanced the money, confirming that even cooled headed executives could be blinded by love, or lust. The court case lasted merely 5 hours and the sentence was less than the prosecution asked for, 9 years. It's only one year more than what's asked by the defence lawyer. So Klatten didn't have to appear before the press and he keeps the €9,5 million. Seven million of that from Klatten, the rest from other ladies. Guess he is more than happy to serve the 6 years. Being 44 now, he would likely able to continue his gigolo career a little longer to secure a comfortable retirement when time comes. Tags:BMW,gigolo,jail

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